After a 30 year hiatus of recording and electronic jamming together, electronic music gear fetishits Dave Rout, Kris Helstrom and Heiki Sillaste reconvened for a chance to perform live at The Toronto Roland Inspiration Centre, a showroom and performance space.

A fantastic little space located in downtown Toronto's Liberty Village Carpet Factory, a historic brick factory building built in 1899.

Live, off the floor, acid jams resulted. Their combined gear list was quite fine! Roland Music Corp. are represented on these two tracks with: CR-8000, TR808, TR707, TR727, TB303, TB3, Juno 106 and Alpha Juno 2.

Twenty minutes of analogue, hard jacking acid house. Performed live off the floor, completely improvised and relying on pure knowledge and instinct.

Datafreq is Dave Rout, who’s been in the Canadian electronic scene since 1985. A true electronic music veteran, he’s performed at home in Toronto as well as Europe. His projects include Datafreq, TECHNIQUES BERLIN, !BANG ELEKTRONIKA and INFOR/MENTAL among others, with releases on labels such as Das Drehmoment, Kernkrach, Werocklikecrazy and Hypnobeat [Germany]. Dave has also performed and recorded with Montreal synth pop pioneers RATIONAL YOUTH, as well as collaborating with Darrin Huss of PSYCHE, and Joe Vizvary of Images in Vogue.

HOZERZ are an hard electro acid funk due, consisting of Kris Helstrom and Heiki Sillaste.

Digital Poodle and Kinder Atom alumnus Kris Helstrom also records under the name of CHROMOSPHERE. Often tightly packed with special guests, Chromosphere is an electro-forum for odd and sometimes not so odd, musical ideas. Experimental and ubane improvisations jammed loosely over oozing break-beats most easily describes the sound from within the Chromosphere.

Heiki (Hey-Key) Sillaste is a Toronto electronic music scene veteran. He has released a vast catalogue of music and has been involved with production duties on numerous electronic-music based albums. Heiki has also played in several music groups and ensembles, including the internationally renown industrial-techno group DIGITAL POODLE, electronic freak beat group KINDER ATOM, synth duos LES FONTAINES and HOZERZ, as well as collaborating with diverse artists such as reggae musician Michael Rose, experimental pioneers Zoviet:France / Rapoon and ambient duo dreamSTATE. His graphic design work has been seen on countless music releases, museum and gallery graphics as well as national advertising campaigns. He also operates the paper+sound music label.